{"id":119534,"date":"2014-02-03T05:51:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T00:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=119534"},"modified":"2014-02-09T17:15:11","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T11:45:11","slug":"permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Permanent Peoples\u2019 Tribunals And The Pursuit Of Justice In Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=J.+S.+Tissainayagam&amp;x=15&amp;y=5\">J. S. Tissainayagam<\/a><\/span>\u00a0&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38677\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38677\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-38677\" alt=\"J.S. Tissainayagam\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa-120x150.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J.S. Tissainayagam<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Competitive, state-centred international politics are often a barrier for victims of human rights violations to find redress through global judicial institutions. To circumvent some of these restrictions the civil society-led International War Crimes Tribunal was founded by Bertrand Russell in 1967 to try the United States and its allies for war crimes against the Vietnamese people.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Permanent+People\u2019s+Tribunal&amp;x=11&amp;y=3\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Permanent Peoples\u2019 Tribunal<\/span><\/a> (PPT) was established by Lelio Basso in Bologna in 1979 with similar ideals in mind. PPTs are civil society initiatives that use international legal standards, legal reasoning and procedure such as analysing evidence, but are not limited by constraints of formal judicial systems \u2013 both national and international \u2013 that bar calling certain witnesses or adopting non-legal norms.<\/p>\n<p>Since PPTs are civil society initiatives they lack the rigour and legitimacy that national and international judicial institutions possess. Moreover, their verdicts cannot be enforced. But a tribunal\u2019s verdict, because it is a collective opinion of a group of judges and the product of legal reasoning, has binding moral authority.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/asiancorrespondent.com\/119188\/permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":38677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-constitutional-reforms","category-editorial"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Permanent Peoples\u2019 Tribunals And The Pursuit Of Justice In Sri Lanka - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Permanent Peoples\u2019 Tribunals And The Pursuit Of Justice In Sri Lanka - Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"[&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Colombo Telegraph\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-02-03T00:21:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-02-09T11:45:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"120\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"154\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"COLOMBO TELEGRAPH\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka\/\",\"name\":\"Permanent Peoples\u2019 Tribunals And The Pursuit Of Justice In Sri Lanka - Colombo Telegraph\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-02-03T00:21:18+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-02-09T11:45:11+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/#\/schema\/person\/9db3d0cfcfa59e1997e3c3524d454cb3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/permanent-peoples-tribunals-and-the-pursuit-of-justice-in-sri-lanka\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Tissa.jpg\",\"width\":\"120\",\"height\":\"154\",\"caption\":\"J.S. 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